[Python] Spyder showing syntactically incorrect autocompletes

I have a class Polygon(self, name, sides, sidelength=1, color= None). I want to define a subclass Square of Polygon.

I think the code for that is

class Square(Polygon):
def __init__(....)
super().__init__(...)


If I am also correct, I can't pass in the attributes within the same line when I am creating the subclass: i.e., the following would be wrong:

class Square(Polygon("Square", 4)):


But then why does Spyder do this autocomplete?



When I click on Polygon, I see this:



It is quite annoying to delete those extra terms (name, sides) every time.

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